Condiment-bottle.



W. A. LORENZ.

CoNmMENT BUTTLE.

APPLICAUUN FILED FEB. 17. i917.

Patented Juno 4, MHS.

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WILLIAM A. LORENZ, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1918.

t Appucatign med February 17, 1917. serial No. 149,347.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. LoRENz,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Condiment- Bottles, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to a bottle or iai' which is particularly suitable for contaming mustard horse radish and other relishes, sauces and the like seasoning and appetizers for foods.

The object of the invention is to provide a bottle that is simple to manufacture, easy to seal so that the contained substance will keep in prime condition and will not leak during handling and transportation readily unsea ed by the consumer, and w en unsealed is in a neat and attractive condition for service on a table.

The object is attained by providing the bottle with an inner cover that ma be used to temporarily close the mouth until the contents o the bottle are' consumed, and with an outer cap which is held in place by atmospheric pressure and that seals' the mouth and at the same time holds the vcover in dplace while the bottle is being handled an transported.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention Figure 1 shows a plan of the closed bottle. Fig. 2 shows a plan of the cover. Fig. 3 is an elevation with the upper endV of the bottle, the cover and the cap cut in section, the relation of the parts being that just before the bottle is sealed. Fig. 4 is a similar view with the arts in the positions occupied when .the

ottle is sealed. Fig. 5 is a section showing a modified arrangement for holding the coc'- closed when the bottle is sealed.

The bowl: 1 may be made of glass, porcelain or other earthen ware preferably the 45 hist, with a wide mouth. n the inside of "the neck near the moutl.` the bottle has a flange 2 which provides a seat for the cov ar, and on the outside near the mouth the b ot! tle is provided with a' shoulder 3 whlch 5 forms a seat for the seal. v

The cover Il, which loosely Ets 'nto the mouth of the bottle, may be made fglass, `porcelain or other material, and it is referly recessedso` that it has an annu ar ei'- or wall Mind` acentral hub 6. Thiemh 9, g'tronjg cover provided with a.

handle by which it may be conveniently lifted from or returned to the mouth of the bottle. An opening 7 is desirably made through the cover at one edge for. the passage of the handle of a spoon or other implement that may be used to remove the contents of the bottle.

The cap 8 is preferably made of metal with a flaring rim 9. The top of the cap may be dished or may be formed with annular corrugations 10 in order to render It somewhat flexible.

A rubber gasket 11 is placed on the shoulder on the exterior of the bottle neck -to provide a seat for the rim of the cap, and a rubber or paper gasket l2 may be placed on the cover seating Han e in the interior of the mouth of the bott e. A waterproof paper disk 13 forming a temporary closure may be placed on the seat gasket inside of the cover, and a spring 14 may be arranged about the handle hub on the outside of the cover.

In utilizing this bottle after it has been filled with the food product the paper disk is placed on the gasket on the seat flange in the interior and the cover placed in the mouth on the gasket. Then the cap is put over the mouth of the bottle with its Haring rim resting lightly on the gasket on the shoulder on the exterior. Air is then exhausted from the interior of the bottle in the usual way, after which pressure is applied to the cap. When the cap is seated and again subjected to the outer atmosphere the normal pressure holds the ca tightly over the mouth of the bottle and orces the center of the cap in against the hub or the spring about the hub so as to press the cover The cap and outer gasket tightly seal the bottle and the cap at the same time through the cover causes the disk and inner gasket to close the inside so that the contents of the bottle cannot leak out around the cover or smear the cover. If the springlis employed it would not be necessary to ave the ca iiexible, although it is desirable to have 1t so.

To rain access to this bottle it is only necessa ry to break the atmospheric seal on the outside and remove. the cap which can be thrown away. Then when the cover is klifted our. the paper diskand inner asket "can be removed and discarded. The ottle?` im then be used in the rdnary way, the

cover being utilized as e protecting closure as long es there is any thing in the bottle, and u, spoon or other implement muy remain in the bottle with its handle ext/ending through the notch in the cover.

The invention claimed is:

A liermeticelly eeulable container coinprising e jai' having e shoulder in the interior and a shoulder on the exterior, a. gasket on the interior shoulder, a gasket on the exterior shoulder e cover loosely tted into the mouth 0f the jar and resting on said inner gasket, and e Cep with a corru gated top und a iiexible rim fitted to the exterior gasket, whereby when said cap is subjected to greater atmospheric pressure on the outside than on the inside its rim seats tightly on the exterior gasket and hermeti- Cullyseals the jar on the exterior and its corrugated top collapses against the cover und holds seid cover tightly down on the interior gasket and hermctically seals the jar on the interior.

VILLIAM A. LORENZ. 

